http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sjn99YTh4U
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost1uk@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > > <anartaxius@> wrote: > > > > > John Searle at CERN (TEDxTalks) > > > http://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg > > > [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j_OPQgPIdKg ] > > > > Searle, Dennet & Zombies: > > Oh, very nice indeed! > > I liked his response to the newbie's comment: > > "You are getting at a tension between philosophy as metaphysics, as the > attempt to penetrate appearances to arrive at ultimate reality as it is in > itself, and philosophy as phenomenology, as the attempt to describe and > understand the world, not as it is in itself, but as it is i[n] its human > involvement. Scientism could be understood as an extreme form of the > metaphysical tendency. It suffers shipwreck on the reef of certain > appearances that are simply undeniable." > > > > > > > > http://goo.gl/K6NsO > > > http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2009/04/searle-dennett-and-zombies.html > > >
